.tif vrs .pic 2005-02-25 - By Chris Marshall
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That's interesting. In my experience, pics are always smaller than tiffs,
unless you're using lzw compression on the tiffs, which I don't think XSI can
use. A regular Tiff has no compression at all, whereas pics do contain lossless
compression automatically. Just save a solid white frame from photoshop in the
two formats and compare the file sizes!!
Between the two, I'd always use pic, but unless you're having problems, I
wouldn't worry too much.
Chris
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Robert Cole <rcole@(protected)>
To: xsi @ softimage <xsi@(protected)>
Sent: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:09:24 +0000
Subject: .tif vrs .pic
> When using greyscale image for texturing, I have a choice of .tif or a
> desaturated .pic. Granted that the image pixel sizes are the same, the
> greyscale .tif
> has a smaller file size, but I understand that XSI/Softimage will have an
> "easier" time with the .pic as it is compressable and etc. If render memory
> space
> was an issue, what format would you use? I understand .map files and will
> not be going that route.
>
>
> robert_at_texturelighting.calm.
>
>
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